English Channel — United Kingdom

Dover - Folkestone

10.7 km
Distance
Dover ↔ Folkestone
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Dover ↔ Folkestone: 10.7 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 3 crossings by swimmers from 3 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.